Henry Louis Gates Quotes
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.
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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
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I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
